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GEORGE M. HAY, OF AMERICUS, GEORGIA, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF AND HARVEY LITGHFIELD, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS. 4

Letters Patent No. 85,659, dated J m 'uwry 5, 1869.

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The Schedule refezred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

- the system.

The compound which I employ for the purpose specified, consists of the several ingredients, and in the respective proportions, as herein set forth, to wit:

Galamus-root, one-half ounce; tincture gum-guiacum, one and one-half ounce; beef-gall, or its equiva lent,,one-half pint eel-skin, one-eighth ounce; codfish, one-eighth ounce; decoction of gourd, one-half pint; sweet milk, one fourth pint; decoction of cherrytree bark, one-fourth pint; decoction of poke-root, onefourth pint; cows urine, one-half pint.

These ingredients, having been thoroughly mixed, are added to one 'gallon'of alcohol or pure spirits.

The medicine, thus compounded, is to be taken, before meals, three times a da at first, in doses of two or three tablespoonfills; afterwards, a single tablespoonful will sufiice.

The eel-skin, codfish, and poke-root are not absolutely necessary to the medicine, but experience has proved that they increase its effectiveness, if used in the proportions set forth:

i It is not necessary, of course, that the precise proportions 'of the several ingredients, as above given, should always be rigidly adhered to. They may be slightly varied, without sensibly affecting the general properties of the compound.

This medicine has been thoroughly tested in'some of the most difiicnlt cases of long-standing, habitual drunkenness that could be found anywhere in the country, and has resulted in an immediate and perfect cure, its effect being todestroy the appetite for intoxicating drinks, and to cause them to excite disgust and nausea whenever presented.

Having thus described my invention, 7

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The compound above described, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

To the above specification of my improvement, I have set my hand, this 7th day-of December, 1868.

GEO. M. HAY.

Witnesses SoLoN O. KEMON, LYSANDEB HILL. 

